CVE-2026-47261
Vulnérabilité élevée dans wasmtime (bytecodealliance)
Description
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. In versions prior to 24.0.9, 36.0.10, and 44.0.2, when a filesystem preopen is given DirPerms::all() and FilePerms::READ without FilePerms::WRITE, this access control mechanism can be bypassed via the wasip2 descriptor.open-at or wasip1 path_open interfaces by opening a file with only the OpenFlags::TRUNCATE oflag. The root cause is that the clause handling OpenFlags::TRUNCATE in crates/wasi/src/filesystem.rs (Dir::open_at, lines 967–969) did not set open_mode |= OpenMode::WRITE;, which is later used for the access control check against FilePerms to determine whether opening the file is permitted; the single-line fix adds that missing assignment, after which the affected calls correctly fail with error-code.not-permitted and ERRNO_PERM respectively. Only wasmtime-wasi embeddings that combine DirPerms::MUTATE with FilePerms::READ are affected by this bug. In particular, the Wasmtime project's wasmtime-cli's use of wasmtime-wasi is not affected, because it always sets FilePerms::all() for all preopens. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.0.9, 36.0.10 and44.0.2.
Gravité et risque d'exploitation
CVE-2026-47261 obtient un score CVSS de 7.5/10, soit une gravité élevée. Selon le modèle EPSS, la probabilité qu'elle soit exploitée dans les 30 prochains jours est de 0.50 %, ce qui la place devant 41.6 % des CVE référencées.
Que faire ?
- Vérifiez si wasmtime (versions >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2, >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10, < 24.0.9) est présent sur votre parc.
- Appliquez le correctif ou la version corrigée indiqués dans les références de l'éditeur.
- À défaut de correctif, limitez l'exposition (filtrage réseau, désactivation du composant).
- Automatisez la détection : les agents CVE Heimdall (gratuits, open source) corrèlent l'inventaire de vos serveurs avec la base CVE.
Références
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v24.0.9
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v36.0.10
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v44.0.2
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v45.0.0
